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Posts in this category discuss how those aspects of culture known as religion can be studied in a way comparable to all other cultural practices.

More Isn’t Necessarily Better: Some Thoughts on the Job Search Process

by Russell McCutcheon

Another job search season is upon us and, not yet knowing if our Department will be lucky enough to search for a new tenure track line (this year I submitted requests for two, in fact), I thought I’d offer a little unsolicited advice to people on the job market (and simultaneously solicit anyone else with experience on search committees in our field to contact me to consider writing a guest blog for our site, reflecting on these very issues from […]

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Grad Tales is Back

by Russell McCutcheon

Back in the 2013-14 school year we started a new series, Grad Tales, aimed to bring REL grads back to campus to meet with current students — likely students in our 100-level courses who major in everything from engineering and business to social work and nursing. Knowing how many students aren’t sure what they’re going to do in their lives, what major to declare, and how a career will or won’t develop after they graduate, our goal was to invite […]

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There and Back Again: A Grad’s Tale

by Ellie Cochran
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What can you do with a degree in Religious Studies or the humanities? Have questions about what happens after graduation? Come find out from a successful REL graduate. Join us on Wednesday, September 26 for our Grad Tales event! Jennifer Alfano Nelson is a Religious Studies graduate who will be discussing her undergraduate degrees (English and Religious Studies) earned from UA in 2007.   Jennifer went on to earn a M.A. in Education at UAB and taught middle school English from 2010-2017, […]

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Welcome Back 2018, Part 1

by Caity Bell

The new semester is almost here and you know what that means… Welcome back videos! (Yes, that’s a plural.) We had a busy summer, getting ready for a new school year. There’s been a few changes and a few adjustments — our eye’s always on the details. We hope you too had a great summer and are all set for another school year to start. Welcome Back: Tidying Up from UA Religious Studies. […]

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Taco Insights on Faculty Service

by Russell McCutcheon

With the start of another school year right around the corner I’m thinking about service — one of those three main areas into which scholars usually divide up their work (the others being research and teaching, of course — and the order in which they’re written is not insignificant). It’s not hard to find faculty posting on social media bemoaning committee work, as if it gets in the way of a professor’s real work, but I’m here to say how […]

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